Correction to "Monotonicity of Effect Sizes: Questioning Kappa-Squared as Mediation Effect Size Measure" [Psychological Methods, Advance online publication. 9, (2015)] doi: 10.1037/met0000029;Monotonicity of effect sizes: Questioning kappa-squared as mediation effect size measure

Psychological Methods

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 193-203

  Wen, Zhonglin ^a   Fan, Xitao ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Effect size; Index k2; Indirect effect; Mediation; Multiple mediation model

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84929508543     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/met0000040     Document Type: Erratum

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